Newsletter Vol: 148 | 15 Mar 2016 Enjoy short and striking toccatas, visit the Philips Electronics Pavilion in Brussels, and no talking in the stalls please!   Music – Silence And the Art of Listening “If music be the food of love, play on.” Shakespeare and Music VII - Hamlet Full Piano Access Play Me, I’m Yours   Event Osterfestspiele Salzburg Commencing as an expansion to the traditional summertime Salzburg Festival, the Osterfestspiele Salzburg was founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan. This annual festival is held during Easter week, embraces opera and classical music in the delightful city of Salzburg... more... Date: March 19 to 28, 2016 Country: Austria website What's New Toccata A striking piece of Music! Music and Art Varése and Le Corbusier During the Renaissance, lute music was all the rage! It was a versatile instrument used for accompanying vocal works or for playing short solo dance pieces. An important aspect of lute performance was improvisation... In 1958, the French composer Edgard Varèse, working with the architect Le Corbusier and his assistant, the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, created a music soundscape for the Philips Electronics Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels... more... more... Animals in Music Birds No talking in the stalls please! We all know about Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, and Schubert’s Trout, but what other animals lurk in the musical forests? The first thing we find might be the most obvious – there are a lot of birds in music! Recently I gave a concert in a local church. The audience was small, but they listened attentively and seemed genuinely engaged by the music. All except one person who talked throughout the entire performance. This was extremely discourteous... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Charles Villiers Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Bach: Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F major, op. 50 listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2016 All rights reserved. Important: If you are not receiving Interlude's newsletter regularly, please check your spam folder. Also add the address info@interlude.hk to your addressbook.